{UAH} MAYOR LUKWAGO IS FOUGHT BY MUSEVENI AND NOT JANIFFER MUSISI

When the opposition strongman Eriasi Lukwago was elected by the people in 2011 as the Mayor of Kampala, Museveni refused him to take up his office.  Museveni used the Kampala Executive Director, Janiffer Musisi, the Minister In-charge of Kampala, Frank Tumwebaze, some Councilors, and the Police to enforce his wishes.  Lukwago's unrelenting commitment to opposition ideologies and his close association with the firebrand opposition leader, Dr. Besigye swelled his popularity among the predominantly opposition leaning residents of Kampala city.  The recent overwhelming vote for the opposition in Kampala amidst the fear for the much anticipated mass protests against Museveni's rigging of elections forced Museveni to rethink his stand on Lukwago.  In his accurate estimates,Museveni rightly knew that by continuing to block Lukwago from accessing his office, he was preparing the fuel that would ignite the anticipated mass action. 

There is no doubt that behind the scenes efforts to lure Lukwago into distancing himself from Dr. Besigye were made.  It is highly probable that such approach involved threats of dire consequences on his life and political future.  The only people who could sweet talk Lukwago must have been Gen. Kayihura or Gen. Saleh.  That is why Gen. Saleh has been and continues to pitch camp in Lukwago's back yard of Rubaga Division.  From the trend of events, it most likely that Lukwago did not give a definite answer but at least a ceasefire deal was secured.  This is what gave rise to a series of cosmetic attacks by Museveni on Janepher Musisi's alleged maladministration of Kampala City Authority.  The appointment of Betty Kamya, a Muganda though he had lost at the polls, as the Minister of the newly created Ministry of Kampala city, was meant to neutralize the power and influence of both Lukwago and Janiffer Musisi.  We are yet to see who of the two will act as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Kampala City!!!!  Betty Kamya has the task of diffusing and dismantling the opposition influence in Kampala as a counter measure to the threat of mass protest under the defiance campaign.  Therefore Betty Kamya is Museveni's political mobilizer for Kampala City. 

The public was taken up by debates of whether Lukwago will this time round work with Janifer Musisi but forgot that the later was only fighting Museveni's proxy wars against the former.  Without Museveni's interference the two can amicably work together.  However,  because of the billions of taxi revenues generated by KCCA, the land grabbing, the need to contain the influence of the unpredictable Buganda Kingdom, and the containment of the politically hostile residents of Kampala, Museveni has to poke his nose into the running of Kampala city.  Therefore, its only Museveni who allowed Mayor Lukwago to assume his office just as a counter defiance campaign measure.  Once he will have diffused  the Defiance Campaign, there is doubt Museveni will once again be on Lukwago's neck unless the Lord Mayor dances to his tune.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO

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Where there is a will, there is always a way.

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